“My name is Jane Mount, and I started Ideal Bookshelf in 2008. I believe books make us better, allowing us to visit other people's lives and understand them. And books connect us, to characters, to authors, and, most importantly, to each other.
“I started painting my books, and then my friends’ books just as they lay on their shelves, but I soon realized it was much more interesting to ask them what books they loved, which books made them who they are today.
“That’s when I started Ideal Bookshelf, and began doing custom pieces for people, painting portraits of them from the inside instead of the outside. I find it endlessly fascinating to see what books people pick, and while painting or making a print I think all about what that person might be like, based on their choices.”
BOOKS INCLUDED:
- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
- The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis
- On Food and Cooking by Harold Mc Gee
- Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
- The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins
- The Essential New York Times Cookbook by Amanda Hesser
- Plenty by Ottolenghi
- Chez Panisse Cooking by Paul Bertolli, Alice Waters
- Jubilee by Toni Tipton-Martin
- Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
- The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham
- I Know How to Cook by Ginette Mathiot
- Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker
- The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Betholle
- At Home With Madhur Jaffrey by Madhur Jaffrey
- Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
- Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book by Betty Crocker
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